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CAMPUS HAPPENINGS
"From These Hands" Successfully Opens
BY LISA SALES AND TRACI TIERA A. KING
Staff Writers
When most collegc seniors begin
thinking about graduation final
examinations, invitations, caps and
gowns, relatives and friends, gifts, parties,
parlies and more parties comes to mind.
But for six WSSU art majors, “From
These Hands” has been on their minds
since August.
From These Hands is the title of The
Second Annual Senior Art Show which
opened at WSSU’s Diggs Gallery April
22 and runs through May 28,1994.
Chris Walton, Dorinda Patterson, Robin
Leftwich, Lavelle Davis, Dee Shore and
Susan Johnson are the six majors who
works are exhibited.
Robin Leftwich, a native of Mt. Airy,
came to WSSU in 1991 on an Incentive
Scholarship to major in Art. Diggs
Gallery is just one of three places where
her work will appear this year. Leftwich
says, “I design my works from an
emotional standpoint. Art makes me feel
close to nature and I become apart of the
environment that art takes me. I believe
that all persons derive from Africa and are
inner related, which includes Asia and
Native American territory.” Many of
Leftwich’s works are for sale and their
prices range from $45 to S400.
Lois Milo-Jones is the artist who
helps her with her inspiration. “Lois
Milo-Jones has shown me that there are
no limitations in art. Where ever your
pencil and paper lead you your mind will
follow. I’ve always enjoyed the freedom
art gives and I connect to Milo-Jones work
best.”
“Makers” is Leftwich’s favorite
piece in the show. “Makers is my
Dorinda Patterson
favorite piece because it collectively
represents all my work and represents
what’s most important to come through
my art work, nature.”
Lavelle Davis, who plans to pursue a
career in commercial art, has 12 pieces in
the show. He says “ its weird how I
choose Art as a college major. I was sent
to my room one night (when I was young)
because I had gotten in trouble. I picked
up a pencil and just started drawing. I
never really thought about drawing it just
came natural.” Watchful Eye is his
favorite piece in the show. He says it took
him three months to complete.
“I love all art mediums but clay is my
favorite,” said Dee Shore who has 10
pieces on exhibit in the show. She feels
that her “high school art teacher and Mrs.
Arcenia Davis (a member of the Art
faculty) have helped her develop her
creativity in art” Shore hopes to secure a
teaching position after graduation and/or
Robin Lefwich
give private lessons at a community
college.
Chris Walton, who has also been the
editor of the school’s yearbook, says that
Air Raid 94 and Jam Session are his
two favorite pieces in the show. His
medium of choice is is mixed pen and
ink/colored pencils. Walton who has
been drawing since he was eight, says his
artist ability is hereditary. “My Mom just
does it for a hobby and she is much better
than I am.”
Walton says he would like to thank
Arcenia Davis for being a f)ositive force
during his college career. “If it wasn’t for
her, I don’t know what I would be doing
today. Anytime I needed someone to talk
to, I knew where to go. She helped me
with my artistic growth and development.
She’s been my Mom away from home.”
Greensboro native, Dorinda Patterson,
credits all of her teachers for helping her
to reach this point in her artistic career.
Susan Johnson
“They all put their feet on my neck,” she
explained. “They were the exu-a positive
influences that I needed to help me with
all of my other positive influences.”
All of Patterson’s 14 exhibited pieces
have very personal affects on her life. The
one piece that has affected her the most is
Knowledge of Self becausc it calls upon
a reflection of her past. Patterson plans to
leach in the local Triad area after
graduation.
Susan Johnson enjoys ihe work of ihe
impressionist Monet. Her favorite piece
out of the 16 pieces exhibited in the show
is a surrealistic piece. Morning on the
Shore.
“After graduation ii would be a
disservice for me to teach something other
than art to children and the community,”
she said. “Art is what I am and I want to
give something back to the community
and children.”
Hardy: A Woman for All Seasons
Association’s Judicial Board, the Student
Organizations Committee, the Food
Service Committee, and the International
Day Committee. Hardy is a Campus Pal
and a veteran of Campus Ministry. She is
also the past President of Atkins and
Pegram Hall.
Outside of school, Michelle is a
member of the Winston-Salem Friends of
the library. She is a volunteer at Kinston’s
Homeless Shelter and a youth reporter for
the Christian Education Department. But
most importantly. Hardy is the associate
minister at Free Will Baptist Church and
visiting associate minister at Second New
Bethel Baptist Church.
Hardy did not fall out of the sky like
Superman. Nor did she get powers from
Krypton. It was during her freshman year
of college that she had a dream. She
talked to God in her dream and realized
that she was being called to preach. Hardy
was only 18 years of age at that time and
she was very frightened. So frightened
that she cried on her friends’ lap for hours.
She responded, through a shaky voice, like
the incident happened yesterday. “I had a
dream-1 had a talk with Big Daddy. I was
so confounded by the outcome of my
meditation. I walked next door to 309
Atkins Hall. My friend Toshia Gibson
looked up at me and said, ‘You’ve been
called to preach,’ and it scared me to
death.”
Over the years. Hardy went through
sessions with her pastor. She was under
his leadership and with his
recommendation. Hardy received her
license to preach. She will be ordained
this year on Thanksjivinj Day in her
hometown, Kinston, NC. “1 think I was
more shocked than anybody else, when it
was announce.”
Hardy has already preached 12
sermons in less than a year. Her
congregation loves her to death and she
loves them too. Hardy feels that she is a
conqueror, a gap holder for those who are
called but not chosen. Preaching gives her
the opportunity to be a preacher that is U"ue
to God. It makes her feel beyond herself,
Michelle is not even considered. She’s
spiritually inspired and endowed. “My
relationship with Christ is spiritual not
religious. Anybody can be religious. But
to be spiritual is to be in contact. Tliat’s
what makes me different from other
ministers. Because “I’m young, 1 have an
open mind and I can adapt to any
population.”
But like Superman, there is a Lex
Luther to this story. Miche’le sometimes
feels misplaced because female ministers
are discredited by men. Men feel that they
should be the only ones to preach the
word. “But God is God and he needs not
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help making judgments of decisions.”
Michelle’s words grab and captivate
when she preaches. Her strong voice and
confidence of the work makes her
trustworthy. She is not the best at
manuscript preaching, but she is lead by
the spirit. She calls upon the spirit, before
each sermon, for the word. Michelle has
the ability to capture souls.
Superman wore a cape. Hardy now
wears a robe. She is WSSU’s supernrl in
disguise. She lives by her favorite
scripture, 1st Corinthainans 10:13:
"There hath no temptation taken you but
such as is common to man: but God is
faithful, who will not suffer you to be
tempted above that ye are able; but will
with the temptation also make a way to
escape, that ye may be able to bear it."